American Arrested in Bolivian Bombings

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from one of your previous posts:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The Washington, D.C.-based World Service Authority, a human rights advocacy group that issues "world passports," identifed the suspect as Triston Jay Amero and said he had sought to renounce his U.S. citizenship after getting into trouble with the law in his home state of California.<br><br>"It's been a while that he's been trying to get out of the U.S. system," David Gallup, president and general counsel of the World Service Authority, told The Associated Press.<br><br>Gallup said <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the suspect had applied for a "world passport" from the group in 2003 under the name Amero</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, then <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>applied for a new one in 2004 under the name Lestat Claudius de Orleans y Montevideo</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. The organization's passports carry none of the rights of a nation's, but travelers have used them to enter countries around the world, Gallup said.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>would this make John Scheda his "real" name??<br>otherwise im checking out some person who's ID he has stolen?<br>i was going to post a warning regarding the information that Amero=Scheda when i reread your post about his world passport(s)<br>at the moment i am leaning towards John Scheda being his real name.. <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

I think his internet trail looks a tad TOO conspicuous, no? <br><br>No offense to hmmm and Gouda...great Googling. <br><br>Also, can Avalon or someone tell me exactly if the term "Wiccan high priest" has any meaning whatever. How does one become one? My only experience of wicca is of a very loosely knit group of folks, no hierarchy, no initiation, etc. But that's vicarious through my wife, who's really not strictly a wiccan..just sort of generally pagan. Are people given this title?<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

Maybe. "Triston Jay Amero" does seem contrived. However, one Triston Jay Amero turns up in the SUPREME COURT <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:2yN6WHRfSZMJ:www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/minutes/documents/SJUN2800.DOC+Triston+Jay+Amero+%2B+court&hl=en&gl=be&ct=clnk&cd=2">MINUTES</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> of WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2000 for SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. His petition for writ of habeas corpus was denied for some reason. If he was under state authority, in court with this name, dunno. <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>S087253 - In re Triston Jay Amero on Habeas Corpus. Petition for writ of habeas corpus is DENIED. (In re Clark (1993) 5 Cal.4th 750.)<br><br>S088267 - In re Triston Jay Amero on Habeas Corpus. Petition for writ of habeas corpus is DENIED. (In re Dexter (1979) 25 Cal.3d 921, 925.)<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> Must be related to his troubles in Cali which forced him to seek world citizenry, a latin wife, lots of explosive materials, and political asylum in south america. I am sure bin Laden would have approved of his attempt to destabilize Bolivia and perhaps trip Morales into making a diplomatic blunder. No, wait... <p></p><i></i>

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digging through the records available regarding the address for John Scheda leads me to believe Amero stole his ID<br><br>John Scheda is mentioned in documents dating back to the early 1990's and considering Amero's age this seems unlikely.<br>i was going to delete the information regarding Scheda but it is all over the web and Amero used it as a alias and it may save others repeating my mistake.. <p></p><i></i>

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no offense taken Dreams End,<br>it looks highly suspicious and conspicious.<br><br>his wiccan high priest claims look fishy to me too.<br>they must have low priests to have a high one or? <p></p><i></i>

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i had seen that too and i think i jumped the gun on his alias John Scheda..<br>it might be interesting to know how he came to be using John Scheda's ID and creditcard (info).<br>and what those writs are about...<br><br>i dont know how that site that labels Amero a scammer came across those photo's either,and i havent been able to find a full size version of them to examine.. <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

I dunno, looks more like a priestess to me. As a matter of fact, I thought it was a pic of the wife when I saw the first pic posted here. <p></p><i></i>

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it looks like he was in some kind of custody and complaining about his treatment..<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.justia.us/us/536/214/">www.justia.us/us/536/214/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>a prisoner</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> who files a subsequent and similar petition in another lower court (say, another trial court) will likely find consideration of that petition barred as successive. See, e. g., <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>In re Clark, 5 Cal. 4th 750</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://canada.napil.com/PersonalInjuryCaseLawDetail20836/Page2.htm">canada.napil.com/Personal.../Page2.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Moreover, the California Supreme Court held that " he requirement that administrative remedies be exhausted `<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>applies to grievances lodged by prisoners.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->'" [Citations.] (<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>In re Dexter (1979) 25 Cal.3d 921, 925.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->)<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

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comparing the archive of that fraud page with the pictures that come up in google cache:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050308151453/http://www.mylatinrose.com/fraud/fraud.htm">web.archive.org/web/20050.../fraud.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>this is OMAR LERMA of the USS SAIPAN LHA-2<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.mylatinrose.com/fraud/men1137.jpg">www.mylatinrose.com/fraud/men1137.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>this is Randy Banks<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.mylatinrose.com/fraud/men1049.jpg">www.mylatinrose.com/fraud/men1049.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>only these two are claimed to be of Amero:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.mylatinrose.com/fraud/lestat2.jpg">www.mylatinrose.com/fraud/lestat2.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.mylatinrose.com/fraud/john-scheda-photo.jpg">www.mylatinrose.com/fraud...-photo.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>that is the 2nd and 4th photo when searching google.<br>the two military looking men appear to be other scammers. <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

hmm, you may be partially right about the Scheda name. A poster in the comments section of Jeff's blog posted a link to an article in the <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/content/breakingnews/story/14234047p-15055726c.html">Sac Bee</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->, which seems to have dug up the same stuff we did, crafty googlers all of us: <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The State Department called <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>his mother, Dawna Scheda,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> in Placerville, on Wednesday night to inform her about the arrest. Scheda said she has not spoken with her son and does not know where he is being held, and declined to say more before hiring a lawyer.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>The World Service Authority pops us again and figures more prominently in this article. Why did they keep an extensive file on him and why did they correspond? Still unanswered, though it seems likely, is whether he did get that world passport from them or not. Maybe a world citizen passport-holder is required send back travel updates to the DC-based WSA:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The American suspect had applied for a "world passport" in 2003 under the name Amero, then applied for a new one in 2004 under the name Lestat Claudius de Orleans y Montevideo, said David Gallup, president and general counsel of the World Service Authority, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group whose passports carry none of the privileges of a nation’s passport. The group’s Web site contends that its passport "represents the inalienable human right of freedom of travel on planet Earth."<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>Details of this Lestat’s travels are documented in an extensive file kept by the World Service Authority. He regularly sent copies of visas and other state documents tracking his activities in Latin America. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->His visas show travel to Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia.<br><br>"It’s been a while that he’s been trying to get out of the U.S. system," Gallup said. "Finally he made it to Latin America."<br><br>...<br><br>But in Lestat’s blog from Colombia <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>and his communications to the Washington advocacy group,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> he repeatedly describes himself as a loner, a "political refugee" and "the Superman of Loosers" whose strongest desire is to distance himself from the United States. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br> <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

OK, more. <br><br>On the passport issue and WSA, <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3745096.html">AP press writers</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> report: <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Amero managed to travel using a "world passport" under the name of Lestat Claudius de Orleans y Montevideo, said David Gallup, president and general counsel of the World Service Authority, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br>About his mother, not a good relationship? And a nasty childhood. Court documents show that <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>He has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals after making constant threats of suicide and violence against authorities, according to court documents obtained by the Associated Press...He even created lists of people he would kill when released _ <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>including his own mother</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Amero tells the world he is innocent, but then tells police he did it because:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>he was a practicing pagan high priest, and hoped the bombings would <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>gain him allies</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> through media coverage, district attorney Carlos Fiorilo Thursday.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>or was it all for this? <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The bombings Tuesday and Wednesday were denounced as "terrorist" by an angry President Evo Morales, prompting an emphatic response Thursday from <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the U.S. State Department, which said the Bolivian leader's remarks harmed efforts to cooperate against terrorism</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

Another AP writer has an article in the <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14171079.htm">The Mercury News</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> with some more info on his very troubled youth:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Bolivian bomb suspect known to California authorities</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>SAN FRANCISCO - The Northern California man arrested in Bolivia on suspicion of planting hotel bombs that killed two people has a history of <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>legal and mental health problems going back to elementary school</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, court documents show.<br><br>Triston Jay Amero, 24, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>was in and out of psychiatric hospitals since he was 7 years old after making frequent threats to kill himself as well as doctors and law enforcement officials,</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.<br><br>"Based on our experience with him, the new charges are not entirely surprising," <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe said on Thursday. "He is a very disturbed man, and given his past, I think he would be fully capable of doing this."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> [of course! prick.]<br><br>As a teenager, Amero was sentenced in October 1996 to three years and six months in California Youth Authority custody after being convicted of assault on a public official and battery for spitting on an El Dorado County juvenile court judge and court clerk, court documents show.<br><br>Amero, who had a prior conviction for leaving the scene of an accident, was later ordered to stay in juvenile prison until August 2001, though officials declined to say when he was released because Amero was incarcerated as a minor.<br><br>The documents were included in several appeals challenging his incarceration Amero filed in federal court in Sacramento...<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> OK, and this: <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>He spent much of his time challenging his incarceration in court and detailed in notebooks that <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>he planned to leave the country upon his release and either work at an oil refinery or start counterfeiting money to sabotage the U.S. economy</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, according to court papers.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>He said he had no desire to return home</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> and vowed to kill his mother and her family if he were placed in her custody, according to documents.<br><br>"Amero keeps to himself and appears to like to be seen as a rebel and outlaw," corrections officials wrote in 1999.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> And finally, the name <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Amero</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Amero's aunt, Paula Amero</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> of Forest Ranch, said Thursday she felt he was unfairly incarcerated in California and testified for him at a parole hearing. They lost touch when he left the country several years ago and haven't spoken since, she said.<br><br>"He's been in and out of correctional facilities for a while, and a lot of it has been blown way out of proportion," she said. "He is a smart kid who had some problems not too different from other kids' problems, and he didn't need to be locked up."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Now why would he want to kill himself and others at the age of 7?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=gouda@rigorousintuition>Gouda</A> at: 3/24/06 8:13 am<br></i>

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finally,the combined media with their huge budgets manage to come up with some stuff that the 2 of us could not find with a couple of hours googling...<br><br>no clue as to what caused this troubled youth ofcourse..<br><br>funny that all those articles mentioning his internet postings dont mention that he was discussing a bombing similar to this one in 2004.<br>Those were on the same site as his the "Superman of Loosers" comment,and he only started 4 or so threads so its not like the combined media overlooked it.. <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

I wonder if any of this info is in the WSA's extensive file on the guy. <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

I think part of the story may be..what the hell is WSA? Spy cover? Whacky eccentics? <p></p><i></i>